busy busy
this two week break has felt a lot longer, which i suppose is a good sign. school starts again on monday, runs for two weeks, then two weeks of "study and assessment", which, since we don't have exams this sem, means go and do your assignments and hand in on time. nice.
i've got a headstart, for some reason been quite keen to get a real grip on one particular essay. not that it's hard, but that the word limit doesn't allow me to do justice to the topic, which is both contentious and complex. sigh.
i really love being able to locate and flip through super old classics that every other academic still alive refers to. it's like in academia, when you want to say X is because of Y, you can't just any ol' how say "I think X is because of Y". gotta say "X is because of Y, according to this or that old man" so very contemporary articles look really funny, as in, "X is because of Y, says A, quoted from B, quoted from C, and everyone quoted from old man famous professor theorist person". wonder what it would have been like for the original dude to sit down with quill in hand and go, hmmm, eureka! X is because of Y.
academic rigorousness (?sp) is what kills creative original thought. too suspicious is what i say.
anyway.
so making progress. this weekend is freezing, major hail today, all the plants are banging on the door protesting and demanding to be let in. poor things. i ran out in the hail to tie the olive tree and its stake more firmly, which were both flapping about dangerously. so who else wants to move to the mediterranean? i do! *hands up*
following the man to boring ol' T this weekend. he's going to earn money at hospital and i'm going to hole up in motel and WORK! bringing books and notes and everything. of course i predict there will be this one crucial book dating from 1962 or something languishing in a corner of the vast library that i have overlooked. whatever.
also in process of locating accommodation for a month in june in auckland where i have been posted for work placement. winter, fun! i love cold. yah right.
gotta go pack and assemble my study gear. must must work. back late sun straight to bed and then 8-4 lectures on monday. yippee.
i've got a headstart, for some reason been quite keen to get a real grip on one particular essay. not that it's hard, but that the word limit doesn't allow me to do justice to the topic, which is both contentious and complex. sigh.
i really love being able to locate and flip through super old classics that every other academic still alive refers to. it's like in academia, when you want to say X is because of Y, you can't just any ol' how say "I think X is because of Y". gotta say "X is because of Y, according to this or that old man" so very contemporary articles look really funny, as in, "X is because of Y, says A, quoted from B, quoted from C, and everyone quoted from old man famous professor theorist person". wonder what it would have been like for the original dude to sit down with quill in hand and go, hmmm, eureka! X is because of Y.
academic rigorousness (?sp) is what kills creative original thought. too suspicious is what i say.
anyway.
so making progress. this weekend is freezing, major hail today, all the plants are banging on the door protesting and demanding to be let in. poor things. i ran out in the hail to tie the olive tree and its stake more firmly, which were both flapping about dangerously. so who else wants to move to the mediterranean? i do! *hands up*
following the man to boring ol' T this weekend. he's going to earn money at hospital and i'm going to hole up in motel and WORK! bringing books and notes and everything. of course i predict there will be this one crucial book dating from 1962 or something languishing in a corner of the vast library that i have overlooked. whatever.
also in process of locating accommodation for a month in june in auckland where i have been posted for work placement. winter, fun! i love cold. yah right.
gotta go pack and assemble my study gear. must must work. back late sun straight to bed and then 8-4 lectures on monday. yippee.